how does someone become poor?

Answer 1

An interesting question based on the paradigm that becoming poor can only mean something when one considers who or what is rich or can be defined as rich. Poverty relies on its opposite, namely: wealth in order to generate any kind of meaning at all.

Currently, a poor person in First World societies, is a person without a car, access to what is deemed "new", specifically a lack of access to technology and a person with no means of maintaining or developing connections and/or contacts in society.
The poor are often seen as alienated and out of touch with rhythms generated by city fads and scenes of interest. One can be deemed poor if one suffers from poor health and low quality of mental and physical life.
Arguably, what is deemed as poor or (the poor) is most valuable to the very rich as the poor are said to produce products and ways of being of value such as art, inspiration, poetry, an aesthetic of suffering as well as a real and useful definition to the wealthy. Here, one may observe that being overtly wealthy is a limited and humiliating prospect indeed, where wealth collects and poverty supposedly creates.
Wealth can only maintain attractions for the majority if modern democracies develop an environment where all have the impression that they can compete and invest on an equal footing with the same opportunities in jobs and education.

I believe a poor man is without faith and without hope. Even here, he is not all together poor. Poverty is defining oneself as a being that has never suffered some sort of poverty, either of spirit, friends or material objects. Ontheotherhand, we are all poor in many respects. No man is immortal.

Answer 2

How To Become Poor

Answer 3

Is this a serious question? Perhaps some people need to see the poor life, and live in it. Being 'poor' is not a something that one becomes by choice. It's very unfortunate that poverty is life for way too many poeple in this world, and more poeple who have money don't donate or give to a poverish family.
Ask this instead, 'How can I help the poor?'
I don't mean to be rude...

Answer 4

What do you mean, how does someone "become poor"? There are all kinds of ways to "become poor", if you start out with money. Be a single girl and get pregnant and have the father of the child desert you along with your parents. Gamble your inheritance away. Drink yourself out of a job. And so on, ad nauseum.

Answer 5

A person does not become poor, he/she is born poor. A person that becomes poor is someone that has some kind of problem(mental, economic,or personal)

Answer 6

Money isn't the measure of all things. Loosing good friends or close relatives can make one poor as can making enemies of those closest to you. Otherwise it's bad investments, poor spending habits (various addictions), lossing a job, getting ill and having large medical expenses.

Answer 7

There's lots of ways that people become poor. They could of been born poor or just become poor. Like for instance, lose their job, lose their house. Maybe their family was poor. Also, they could of been sent to the poor house. It could of been their own fault. Like a gambling problem, drug abuser, alcoholic, drug addict. They could of just sent themselves to the poor house, someone else could of. It could of been anything to had made them poor. It could of been someone Else's fault. Like someone else could of put someones house up for something. To become poor is to lose money right? So they could be in debt and just lose their money.

Answer 8

well if they were born into a rich family then become poor that is how. but if they were born and raised poor, they in there eyes never considered themselves poor. that is just the way life is.

Answer 9

There are many of factors that contribute to becoming poor. As others stated in this forum, one is born into it and others made certain decisions financially or some traumatic event happened that caused them to loose their monies, homes and assets. To pin-point an exact answer to this question is very difficult, because the dynamics of poverty are vast.

Hope I shed some light to your question.

Answer 10

I know it seems an obvious answer, but by wasting all of their money. If they are born poor, however, they do not become poor, as they always were. It is not hard to lose material posessions.